Colin Tobin

And, um, I'll be honest with you.

I kind of, I would say 2012 was probably the worst year of my life, but now when I look back, I consider it the best year of my life, like by a, by a mile, you know, it was a catalyst for everything I had.

I had an incident in the bear.

I won't go into that.

I don't want to go into that.

I had an incident in the bear.

Kind of fell out with the owners for a while.

We're great friends now.

Noel Howell, God rest his soul, passed away a couple of years ago.

I'm good friends with his son, Barry.

He runs the off-license now and I have the bar.

So we're colleagues to this day.

But kind of burnt my bridges a bit in the bar at that time.

And I'll be honest with you, something that I'm very vocal about is...

Now, I think, for want of a better word, the social welfare is a bit too, it's a bit too easy to obtain.

Whereas back then, I don't really think it was.

Like, I remember I broke my hand, broke my hand, I'm out of work, probably no savings because I was wasting my money back then.

And as you do, I went into the social welfare office and I said, look, I have a broken hand and I'll be out of work at least for three months.

But I wear my heart on my sleeve and I was too honest.

And they said, what do you do?